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Fri, 15 May 2015 10:48:15 +0000Theresiahttps://theresiaproject.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/listen-to-theresia/We told you about the exiciting days of our last tour, from Lodi to Rome and L’Aquila. Now we want you to listen to something from our performances! As you know, Rome concert was live broadcasted by italian national radio, Rai Radio3: on the official website is now available the podcast with 3rd movement from Mozart Concerto K 212. Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra was conducted by Claudio Astornio, soloist Esther Crazzolara.

Grant Lawrence’s first book revisits his years growing up tied, sometimes unwillingly, to the marine park beyond the end of the road – Desolation Sound.

It was the first truly Spring-like day of the year but as I boarded the bus for the long ride home I wasn’t noticing the beautiful weather.

I was feeling mightily stressed. Innumerable assignments, articles and projects were demanding my attention and I was feeling the pressure.

In an act of rebellion against my usual routine I opted to forgo my copy of the Toronto Star for my ride home and instead pulled out Adventures in Solitude and dug in.

Solitude, Grant Lawrence’s first publication, is a unique take on the autobiography.

Lawrence covers all the main points you would expect: his awkward, nerdy childhood; rebellious youth and triumphant self-discovery in adulthood.

What sets this tale apart is the perspective from which it is told.

In Lawrence’s life, all roads lead (across a couple of aging ferries) to Desolation Sound.

Set some 120 km up the British Columbia coast from Vancouver, Desolation Sound Marine Provincial Park is somewhat unique.

When it was formed by the B.C. government in 1973 the land it encompassed included several private cottages and homes. Over the ensuing decades, until other economic causes took priority, the government has bought up what properties they could when they came up for sale. Those that remained have been grandfathered their right to existence in what is otherwise a pristine provincial park.

One of the properties still in private hands belongs to the Lawrences. Unlike most scenic cottage country, being surrounded by provincially-owned parkland the Lawrence cottage and those few others around it will never get another neighbour. The isolation they now enjoy will never be violated.

One small part of the 84 square kilometres of B.C. coastline that is Desolation Sound Provincial Marine Park.

The book starts with the Lawrence’s first miserable camping trip through the frigid Rocky Mountain rains to their newly-bought territory, then utterly devoid of development.

As the years and pages turn, Lawrence tells you in the rough former-rock-and-roller tones so familiar to fans of his CBC Radio shows of the deadly risks and inspirational rewards he escaped from and to in the Sound.

Lawrence’s own growth is paralleled with that of the Sound itself, as told through numerous historical tales of its denizens.

You meet the hermetic Cougar Lady, so named for the dozens of wild cats she killed in her years living on the rugged shore, who rescued the Lawrences from the weather on that ill-fated first trip north.

You’ll feel young Grant’s despair and teenage Grant’s disgust at the Sound in the excerpts from the logs of Captain George Vancouver (for whom the provincial capital is named) as he suffered ever-deepening depression while mapping the Sound’s craggy coves seeking the Northwest Passage.

Finally, Lawrence rediscovers his lost love for the Sound, matching it with the new discoveries of the friends he brings with him seeing the raw, unadulterated beauty for the first time. The perfect, awe-inspiring event to summarise these discoveries happened within hours of their arrival at the end of the road.

‘“F**KING F**K F**K!” Rodger the Dodger screamed, incredulous at the raw nature unfolding around him. The eagle plunged talons-first into the water ten feet away from our mouths agape.’

Whether it’s Russel Letawsky, the “hippie from head-to-knee” in “no-nonsense” hiking boots, or the “lightning bolt of artistic, feminine energy” Handy Candy, you’ll feel yourself escaping along with Lawrence and his friends and neighbours to the land beyond the end of the road.

And so it was I found myself at the end of my own road home, the warm hints of spring wiping away the bitterly, painfully cold memories of winter. The stress and pressure of my schoolwork was long forgotten.

Upon disembarking my bus I tweeted of my own adventures in the solitude enforced by the unwritten ‘no talking’ rules of the public transit system. Lawrence replied to my missive “perfect place to be reading it … #escape.”

Escape is the theme and solitude in the means of attaining it. All of this is perfectly summarised in the quote from theologian Paul Tillich with which Lawrence starts the whole book off.

“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”

Well, this first installation happens to be late…really late actually.

I am now into the third week of this placement and I intended this to be weekly…however, in between commuting from Birmingham to London and working (actual job and University stuff) I ran out of time. I could have had less sleep but I think that would be problematic for myself and others around me, as I probably could just crash out at any moment.

I personally think that this segment would be really boring if all I write about is how amazing the BBC is and how great London is and self indulgent topics along that line. This doesn’t mean I intend to shame the whole corporation, I just want to try and convey what I have actually learnt.

What has surprised me here? What exactly is the day to day routine?

I want to write about it from different angles. That way (in theory) you will have a clearer and more interesting sense of what I am doing.

Last week I worked on the same show every day. By the end of the week I felt like I was almost verging on being part of the team which was a rewarding feeling. Prior to this, I could never really create a vision of how I thought a radio show came to be ready to go on air. One thing that did surprise me is how regimented some aspects of the job are. Most of the staff I have met have daily checklists that they must strictly follow. If each person does this, there should be a show ready to air at the required time (and there always is)

I’ve found myself asking a lot of questions. Not because I feel I should (like that awkward last part of a job interview) but because they keep popping into my head. There would just be a small gap of confusion as I am doing something. I would be uploading the music for the running order and I think…

“but who actually decides on all this music? How is it chosen? Is there a pattern? Is there some sort of schedule?”

Or, the other day I watched as someone balanced the sounds of every instrument in the BBC Concert Orchestra…and I thought

“How does that make the orchestra quieter? How do you change the faders quickly between movements? How do you know if the orchestra is balanced correctly for broadcast?”

Instead of sitting and pondering over these queries, I just asked. It may seem easy to you but all through my life a criticism I have received countless times, is that I don’t ask enough questions. I don’t tell someone if I am struggling, I never ask for help…you see my issue.

I am determined that this is not something the BBC will pick up on. Plus, a lot of pennies have dropped as a result, so I guess I’d better leave that flaw behind me.

The next part of this segment will be up by the end of the week……(so she says)

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Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:20:22 +0000philsteinberghttps://philsteinberg.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/bbc-radio3-nightwaves-ocean-interview-now-posted/The BBC has posted the 3 December 2013 edition of Radio 3’s ‘Night Waves’ programme, where I joined international law professor Stephen Haines to discuss the cultural significance of the ocean and the power of Grotian sea governance. The coolest part was being mentioned in the same sentence with Baldrick and J.M.W. Turner…and being called an Old Sea Dog.
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“UNED – Amor en tiempos revueltos: Crepúsculo y Sombras de Grey” is an example of a radio editorial commentary broadcasted in Radio 3 –which belongs to RNE (Radio Nacional de España) –within a section called Sin Distancias which counts with the collaboration of professionals and contributors related with the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) and well known within different knowledge areas, who talk about a huge variety of topics.

Sin Distancias is broadcasted every day –from Monday to Sunday –by the period of time between 5-6 am. The area of knowledge the commentary is about depends on the day of the week: on Mondays, the topic is about Philology’s field; Tuesday is the turn of Engineering; Wednesdays are for Politics and Sociology and Social Jobs’ commentaries; Psychology on Thursdays; Philosophy of Fridays; Anthropology on Saturdays; and Law on Sundays. In this case, the commentary was issued on March 11th, 2013, Monday, so the topic is related with Philology. In “Amor en tiempos revueltos: Crepúsculo y Sombras de Grey”, the professional in charge of the commentary is Mª Ángeles de la Concha Muñoz, English Philology Professor in UNED and specialist in Female and Genre Studies.

Mª Ángeles accomplishes the analysis of two of the most read books of nowadays –Twilight Saga and Fifty Shadows of Grey –from a perspective that has to do with Equality and Genre Studies. The structure of the commentary is basic: it consists in the first introduction of the topic and the two books she’s going to talk about, then continues with all the explanation and analysis of the topic and finally, concludes with a final reflection that kind of serves as a goodbye and as a moral reflection that makes the listeners think about it: we should read books with a critical perspective.

In terms of content, she introduces us some interesting points such as the concept of ‘post feminism’. In a certain way, her commentary is based in this concept in order to analyze how those books and the sort of woman their main characters represent, influence us. These two books have some aspects that can make us form a relation between them and genre violence: the men appearing in both have a violent character and the women tend to be submissive; so it is convenient to analyze these couple relation models. Mª Ángeles is not classifying these two books as good or bad but just expressing to us her critical opinion.

This is the point that makes us identify the piece as an editorial commentary: she is clearly giving her opinion, perspective and reflections about the topic: that is to be critical with the books we read because culture influences us definitely and it can be dangerous if we don’t form our own critical opinion.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

Back-to-school sales are in full swing. The CNE is entering its second weekend. Local teachers are in a bitter dispute over contract talks. Yep, summer is winding down in Ontario but it’s not over yet! If the climate keeps going the way it is, eventually it never will end… If/when that happens, you’re going to need some summery songs to keep you going. Hopefully they’ll have developed computers and mp3 players (or whatever replaces mp3s) that can run in super-heated conditions by then.

Mood Ruff – Rocket Ship

I first heard this track on an early CBC Radio 3 podcast when I was just exploring the realm of independent music and it has stuck with me ever since. The airy guitar and mellow beat just exudes everything ‘summer’. Good thing too considering the subject matter. Lay back in the sun and nod your head sideways.

Papermaps – Reunion

I keep coming back to this group. I guess you could call them one of my pet favourites. As I’ve mentioned before, they were the headlining act at last year’s Hamilton Music and Film Festival. The show unsurprisingly ran long and I was well and truly worn out by the time they took the stage. My foot was figuratively half out the door but when Papermaps started playing, I firmly planted myself and loved every minute. Their self-titled record spent the rest of the summer in my car and provided the soundtrack to several adventures and hi-jinx.

Bahamas – Already Yours

Really, any of Afie’s songs would make good summer sounds. Mellow and relaxing with a voice that washes over you like a warm breeze. This video from Southern Souls adds yet another layer of intimacy to his performance. It brings back memories of the Home County workshop I saw with him and Joel Plaskett. Imagine listening to his soulful licks while relaxing on the grass watching squirrels leaping through the trees… Ahhh, memories…

Maylee Todd – Summer Sounds

I don’t think this needs a summery summary at all. There’s a reason I used it for the title of this article!

So there’s a good foundation for your summer soundtrack. Summer doesn’t officially end for nearly a month and the warm weather looks like it could hold out longer than that. Go out and enjoy it!

But first, let me know what songs are required listening for your Labour Day long weekend. Perhaps something from one of the performers at Shelter Valley Folk Festival? (You are coming to that, aren’t you?)

Finally, I haven’t really pushed this much but Top of our Lungs is on the Twitter and Facebook. Head over yonder and give us a follow and a like if you’re so inclined.

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Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:47:00 +0000Top of our Lungshttps://topofourlungs.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/underscore-green-van-sessions/A short and sweet post for a short* and sweet singer-songwriter. It was just in the past year that I first heard the music of Crissi Cochrane. It was an exciting time for the CBC Radio 3 community, of which she is a part, when her song, I Won’t Try to Break Your Heart, debuted on CBC Radio 3. Her music is soft and sweet and I guarantee** you will go ‘Awww…’ when you hear it. I know I did and promptly purchased her record, Darling, Darling.

Yesterday, she had another début. This time it was a new video, a live, acoustic performance of Drive All Night recorded in the back of a green Westfalia VW van, appropriately enough.

Now wasn’t that beautiful? I think Crissi may be on to something with that van. A spin-off of the Green Couch Sessions, perhaps? Somebody should make that happen. I’ll drive.

*I do not know Crissi’s stature and make no claims to the accuracy of this adjective as it applies to her.**Guarantee not valid in the space-time continuum.

UPDATE!

This video was shot live-on-location during the making of the official music video for Drive All Night. The official vid has no set release date but should be out some time late next month. Thanks for the info, Gavin.

I’m often travelling: the time and space on a journey is valuable for all sorts of reasons. Thoughts can wriggle about and expand in the no-man’s-land of neither here nor there. Like a bridge the span of transit can suspend the shackles of daily life. I have occasionally used the time and the non-personal space to make difficult phone-calls that might sully familiar places. And the conversations one may strike up – the extraordinary coincidences encountered with fellow travellers – can have a special colour and intensity.

And another thing to do on a train is knit – I’ve had fun recently making this jacket for a newly arrived small person of my acquaintance.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of our designs and the journey of creativity. Early one morning as I drove south I had to grip the wheel hard as I became incensed listening to the Today programme: there was Tony Harrison, the distinguished writer and poet, describing his lifelong tussle with ‘making’, giving us all a brief and brilliant insight into the process of creativity; and there was some squeaky young interviewer having the patronising cheek to gainsay and refute his position of creative diffidence. Listen and learn, please.

Incidentally he gave us his poem Baghdad Lullaby about Iraq which had burst from him as a furious reaction to a particular piece of political duplicity he’d heard on the radio – the power of well-used anger.

Luckily soon afterwards my spirits were lifted by a full-band blast of the most jolly Zip-a Dee-Doo-Dah on Radio 3, played to wish America a Happy Birthday – it was the 4th of July – the music did its job, the hot clouds of my temper cooled and safely blew away.

Many times, describing the nature of a design, words with a musical connotation spring to mind – harmony, balance, composition etc…Not being a reader of music, to me a written musical score is the beautiful evidence of invention. As an instruction it has its job to do, information to impart in its own special language – the energy and character of composer and composition are held there waiting to be released into the air.

When Judith Serota retired after 20 years running the Spitalfields Music Festival her leaving present was a collection of musical variations written especially for her by eight of our great composers on the theme of Bist du bei mir – with the idea of her practising her piano playing! Not only is that a remarkably imaginative and generous gift, the number of scores has increased by three and they are now available to listen to and in a published version to buy. Proceeds and profits will go to Dimbleby Cancer Care who looked after Judith so well at St Thomas’ Hospital. There is also a copy of the ‘Variations for Judith’ signed by all those distinguished composers which is the subject of a silent auction. There are many good reasons to make a bid, however modest, so please do.

Wymondham is a very pretty and resource-full Norfolk town, and the Abbey was the spectacular setting for an enjoyably ambitious concert this last weekend; it included the very tender playing of the young pianist Richard Uttley, watched over by the many carved wooden angels in the roof.

That recent journey to Norfolk was buffeted by rain and winds and then suddenly sunshine smoothed my progress. At times the roads were as rivers; the poppies, blown clean from the verges, were nestling in clusters within the wheat, the only way to be safe it seemed. Pat Albeck‘s new work – cut paper collages and assemblages – bloomed beautifully at East Ruston, an exhibition and a garden well worth wading to!

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The poor old pollinators – the insects have really had a hard time this year and so therefore have the orchards. July is the month for the Jersey Tiger Moths in South London – they’re particularly striking and like to settle on the warm wisteria walls – will we see any this year I wonder?

But of course the upside of all this rain rain rain sun is ….the wonderful rainbows, always magical, always cheering, always reminding us of colour in light.

ps : booking is now open at the FTM for my 4th August workshop ‘The Pattern Within’ and check out my new (anon) bedlinen designs at M&S – Autumn Trees and Autumn Floral……

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Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:20:24 +0000Top of our Lungshttps://topofourlungs.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/impromptu-post-6-2/Lana Gay asked to tell the Radio3 blog some of the acts you’re keeping an ear to the ground for. I have quite a few so I wrote at length about it. I then realised that sharing things like that is the main reason I started this blog. So here it is, copied-and-pasted for your enjoyment.

Their violinist, Kathleen, put me up and showed me an amazing time when I visited Ottawa earlier this year. I even got to crash their band practice on the first night. They’ve been making quite a stir on the Radio3 blog of late and just wrapped up a short tour of Ontario. Unfortunately, even though they played twice within 45 minutes of my house, I didn’t get to any of their shows. Get your butts back down here again soon, yous guys!

These guys and gal were a surprise performance before Cuff the Duke and Hooded Fang last fall. I was blown away. Plus, turns out Tim, the guitarist/lead singer, actually recognised ME. He sold me coffee on a regular basis.

They were the closing act at the 4th Annual Hamilton Music and Film Festival last year. Reunion, which I requested earlier, got some airtime on R3 whent their LP released but they haven’t had much attention since then.

Another HMFF4 performer. They walked away with the 2nd place prize (The Love Machine, http://www.myspace.com/thelovemachine, took first) on the music side. And they did it completely hung over, too. They had been up all the previous night celebrating the drummer’s birthday.

They also took home a prize from HMFF4. I almost forgot them because I didn’t pick up any of their records. They were horribly over-charging… Something like $15 for a 3- or 4-song EP? Still, like The Hamptons, their bio left me fully disinterested but their performance had me hooked.

Another act I think I got followed by on Twitter. Their (his?) album, The Kingdom, is free for downloading on BandCamp. I was spinning it back-to-back when working on demolishing a porch. Yes, that was kind of random. Good, meaty electronic music, though.

Label-mates of Bruekke, I picked up their debut when Other Songs Music Co. was holding a holiday sale last year. I got it half-off but would gladly have paid full price. I haven’t seen them perform live, as of yet.

The show itself was all-request so there were also a number of excellent tracks and artists mentioned. So if you have the free time and feel so inclined, check out the rest of the discussions here. If you’re there before 4pm EDT today (July 9, 2012), join in with your own requests and suggestions. We’re always looking for more input.

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Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:58:57 +0000Top of our Lungshttps://topofourlungs.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/back-with-a-winner/So many apologies for that extended absence. Life got in the way in a number of ways, both good and bad. I won’t bore you with the details. Rather, I’m going to announce the winner of the Community contest that closed waaay back in March. In celebration of the launch of CBC’s new music site, CBC Music, readers were asked to write in with their own stories of how the music community has affected them. The winner received a copy of Arkells‘ Michigan Left and their story would be published here.

So, without further ado, the belated tale of our globe-trotting winner.

Andy ‘canadajanes’ Janes is a Canadian expatriate now residing in Texas. Andy’s tale is the perfect example of how not just the music community but the global community as a whole works together to enhance our shared experiences.

Andy happily pins the blame for his CBC Radio3 obsession on an old friend from high school. She gave him several CDs by R3 acts and pointed him in the direction of the podcasts just as he was entering a period of upheaval. It was the summer of 2006 and Andy was leaving Texas for DC. He had earned himself a summer internship working for a senator, a position that afforded him plenty of free time for which the aforementioned podcasts provided the perfect soundtrack. Unfortunately, as with all things, the internship came to an end 4 months later and life got in the way. Andy had to leave Radio3 behind. The music however, like any of our passions, would eventually find a way of creeping back in to his life.

Much like the events that first brought Andy to the Canadian indie scene, the impetus for its return involved a change of scenery. Instead of urban Washington D.C., this time he found himself somewhere slightly more exotic. It was December 2008, shortly after Christmas, and our intrepid fan had taken a position at a high school in eastern Rwanda near the border with Tanzania. In order to maintain a connection with home Andy rediscovers the Radio3 podcasts, downloading the entire backlog and falling in love with several of the acts he found therein. Understandably, outside of the offerings of Radio3, Canadian music was very difficult to come by. That didn’t stop Andy from sharing the likes of Coeur de Pirate and Justin Rutledge with the friends he had made. And in exchange he was introduced to such emerging East African artists as Tom Close and The Ben.

Unlike in 2006, when Andy’s time in Africa came to an end and he returned to Texas his connection to Radio3 didn’t end. Rather, it continued to blossom into a full-blown obsession (in a good way). Nowadays he is a regular listener and finds time to contribute to the blog from his position with the Student Conservation Association where our ever-civic-minded friend runs a program engineered to engage high school students in the world of environmental conservation. And the blog community isn’t ungracious to his commentary, helping him by pointing in the direction of touring groups that are performing in the local area and finding ways to get him and his fiancée into exclusive events like the Canadian Blast BBQ at SXSW in nearby Austin.

‘This is what the CBC Radio3 community is all about, helping each other to better enjoy the music we all love!’ I couldn’t have said it better myself, Andy. Congratulations and I hope you’re enjoying your copy of Arkells’ Michigan Left.

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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:03:13 +0000Dominichttps://ridiculousbird.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/sally-matthews-lunchtime-concert/Glorious recital, right down to the choice of encore
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